The Lowdown Dual-display Machines
Computer Shopper|September 2018

Laptops and tablets with two screens are Intel’s and Asus’s vision of future computing.

The Lowdown Dual-display Machines

DUAL SCREENS ON LAPTOPS… REALLY?

Yep. At Computex 2018, Intel showed off two prototype devices that looked like some strange splicing of a laptop, tablet, eReader and notepad.

The chipmaker didn’t make too much of a song and dance about its prototypes in the same way as it did with its new chips, but the prototypes suggest Windows 10 mobile devices could take a fresh direction.

Tiger Rapids is the codename Intel gave its first prototype, which despite the wild-at-heart name, wasn’t inspired by nature but Moleskine notebooks instead.

With a hinge that apes those found on serious-looking laptops, the device has two 7.9in displays. But rather than slot two tablets together, only the ‘page’ on the left is a full-fat touchscreen, while the right side is an electronic paper display. The idea is that the left screen serves as a display for Windows 10 desktop and apps, while the right screen is designed to be scribbled on with a stylus, even incorporating a little flex in it to simulate writing on paper.

At a mere 4.85mm, the digital notepad-meets-computer still squeezes in an Intel Kaby Lake generation processor, an SSD and a single USB-C port, as is the fashion with slim laptops these days – looking at you, MacBook.

OK, WHAT ABOUT THE SECOND GADGET?

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